Malu Gatto

One for your diaries: Kurt Weyland, Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat on 11 June. All welcome! Please RT. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

🗓️ Bath friends, mark your calendars! On May 14 5:30pm @leahruppanner.bsky.social is giving a talk on the mental load and her excellent new book, Drained! Free & open to the public, please join us for a great conversation ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leah-ruppa... @uniofbathipr.bsky.social

🚨Job alert🚨 We are looking for two lecturers/assistant professors in environmental politics (permanent!) www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

The Blue Trail (directed by Gabriel Mascaro) showing on Wednesday 8 April at 18:45 at The Lexi Cinema in London Special preview screening with Cine Brazil and as part of the UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025-26 thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinem...

Want to know more about sugar cane plantations, dominoes, bodegas, electricity blackouts, salsa, reggaeton, and the history and politics of América and its peoples, from Chile to Canadá? Apply to our MA in Latin American Studies: History, Politics & Society #BadBunny www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

How does democracy erode when the state itself is weakened? In The Democracy Paradox, Javier Pérez Sandoval (Kellogg Institute) explains why populist leaders "hollow out" state capacity – and what that means for justice, security, and elections. Listen: https://bit.ly/4qW9i0d

📚 Book Launch - Join Professors Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara, editors of Modern Peru: A New History 📅 28 January 2026 | 13.00 – 14.30 📍 In-person | 51 Gordon Square 🎤 Explore a sweeping account of Peru’s history with leading scholars 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... @paulodrinot.bsky.social

How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐 And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents? I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out! Hope this sparks some conversations 💡 tally.so/r/447Xxk

Now on my substack, Gender Gap: 5 notable gaps discussed in 2025. 1. leaving the U.S. 2. marriage aspirations 3. social media use 4. loneliness 5. college plans I picked these bc they signal how men/women structure their social lives and are imagining their futures. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why Chile Voted for Kast: Insights from Experts José Antonio Kast marks the biggest rightward shift since 1990. Join our expert roundtable: ✅ What drove this dramatic turn? ✅ The issues that shaped the campaign ✅ Impact on Latin America 📅 21 Jan | 13:00 | In-person 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)

Have you read our first blog post yet? "Save for a total change of heart in Donald Trump, it is hard to see a reversal of the US military buildup off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast...." Read the full post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...

Job: Lecturer in Global Politics with a regional specialization in Latin America, UCL. Apply by 4 January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

It’s fantastic to see this out! Congratulations, @mduque.bsky.social!

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

I'm thrilled that my book, Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior, is now available for pre-order through CUP and Amazon! Let me know if you'd like an electronic copy for your class, and I'll send it to you! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Our Canadian series begins this month with "The Quebec Referendum, October 1995: Thirty Years After". 📅28 October 2025 🕜18.00 ONLINE Register by 27 October 12noon 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... Join a panel of distinguished commentators on Quebec history and politics.

The website for my forthcoming book, Elect Women for a Change: The Path to Gender Parity in Politics, is now live! www.paritypolitics.org Reach out if you might be interested in having me come give a talk! The book will be published by Polity in February 2026. Gendersky Polisky

🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities! Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
doi.org/10.1177/1065...

(4) "Backlash or Progressive Mobilization? Voter Reactions to Perceived Trajectories of Women’s Representation" by Magdalena Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social l doi-org.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/10.1177/0010...

📚 Seminar Alert! Jonathan Bell, Professor of American History at UCL, introduces his forthcoming book: The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics and Health in the U.S. since the Rights Revolutions 📅 15 Oct 2025 ⏰ 4pm 📍 51 Gordon Square 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! 📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests” With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️‍🌈 But is this really the case? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Check out the Annual Report for the @uclamericas.bsky.social to learn more about what my awesome colleagues have been up to!

📢 Meet the Editors: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics 📅 APSA Annual Meeting, Fri 12, 2:30–3:30pm 📍 Salon Cezanne, Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver Join the editors for an informal gathering to learn about the series & share your research on gender and politics www.cambridge.org/core/series/...

Excited to share that I have a new book coming out in February 2026! Drawing on my work as an academic & consultant over the last 25 years, the book provides a road map for achieving gender parity in politics - the what, why, & how. Available now for preorder: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Call For Papers - Special Issue: "War and the State in Latin America" with the Journal of Latin American Studies 📢 please retweet! The deadline for proposals is October 30, 2025. Invited proposals must be submitted next year by January 30.

Mona Lena Krook Receives the 2025 Charles Merriam Award The Charles E. Merriam Award is presented biennially by the American Political Science Association (APSA) in recognition of a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the…

My Substack on writing, Respect the Marble is back! 🎉 I’ll be launching several new things this autumn, outlined here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/a-new-seas... A quick preview 👇 🧵

- Rolling back environmental impact assessment - Doubling down on oil and gas production

Thrilled to welcome Andrew Proctor to UCL-Institute of the Americas!

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

✝️Does the rise of evangelical Christians reshape electoral politics? ➡️ @victoraraujo.bsky.social shows that Brazil’s evangelical boom is linked to lower voter turnout and greater conservatism, but not to a rise in electoral competition or polarization www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Submit your research to PSRM! And if you were wondering: @epssnet.bsky.social is fully committed to supporting PSRM as a product of the collective efforts of the European political science community. We encourage you to continue submitting your work, reviewing for it & supporting the editorial team

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

If we wish to mentor better, at any level, we need to: 
📝 Normalize messy work
💬 Separate critique from identity
🎯 Praise process, not just product
🧭 Teach how to navigate feedback
💖 Model compassion (for ourselves, too) 9/

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science! Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️ 💥 4-yr fully funded 📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025 🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug Details + apply 👇